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		</div><p>Amnesty International has accused Myanmar’s military government of increasingly using battlefield weapons against peaceful protesters and conducting systematic, deliberate killings.</p>
<p>Myanmar has been rocked by protests and other acts of civil disobedience since a February 1 military coup that toppled the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi just as it was to start its second term.</p>
<p>The coup reversed years of slow progress towards democracy in the south-east Asian nation after five decades of military rule.</p>
<p>The military “is using increasingly lethal tactics and weapons normally seen on the battlefield against peaceful protesters and bystanders across the country”, Amnesty International said in a report.</p>
<p>“By verifying more than 50 videos from the ongoing crackdown, Amnesty International’s Crisis Evidence Lab can confirm that security forces appear to be implementing planned, systematic strategies including the ramped-up use of lethal force. Many of the killings documented amount to extrajudicial executions,” the report said.</p>
<p>Security forces have used live ammunition against protesters, causing the deaths of about 60 people.</p>
<p>There were new but unconfirmed accounts of additional deaths on Wednesday and Thursday as police attempted to break up anti-coup protests in cities and towns across the country using tear gas and other weapons.</p>
<p>As widespread protests against the takeover continue, the junta is facing a new challenge from the country’s ethnic guerrilla forces, which until recently had limited themselves to verbal denunciations of last month’s coup.</p>
<p>Reports from Kachin, the northernmost state, said guerrilla forces from the Kachin ethnic minority attacked a government base on Thursday and were in turn attacked. The armed wing of the Kachin political movement is the Kachin Independence Army, or KIA.</p>
<p>“This morning in Hpakant township, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO/KIA) attacked a military council battalion based in Sezin village, and the KIO/KIA’s Hpakant-based 9th Brigade and 26 battalions were attacked by helicopter. Both sides are still investigating,” The 74 Media reported on Twitter.</p>
<p>A Facebook page for the Kachin Liberation Media said the KIA had overrun the government outpost and seized ammunition. It warned the government against using lethal force to break up anti-coup protests in the Kachin capital, Myitkyina, where two demonstrators were killed this week.</p>
<p>The reports could not be independently confirmed, and ethnic guerrilla armies as well as the government often release exaggerated information. However, even making such an announcement amounts to a sharp warning to the government.</p>
<p>The Kachin actions come a few days after another ethnic guerrilla force belonging to the Karen minority announced it would protect demonstrators in territory it controlled.</p>
<p>The Karen National Union deployed armed fighters to guard a protest in Myanmar’s south-eastern Tanintharyi region.</p>
<p>Myanmar has more than a dozen ethnic guerrilla armies, mostly in border areas, a legacy of decades-old struggles for greater autonomy from the central government. Many have formal or informal ceasefire agreements with the government, but armed encounters still occur.</p>
<p>The UN Security Council on Wednesday unanimously called for a reversal of the military coup that ousted Ms Suu Kyi’s government and strongly condemned the violence against peaceful protesters.</p>
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